Keep (the same) folder content in sync with another mac
Hi all,
Me and a friend of mine work on the same project. We have one folder with all our files and subdirectory in each of our mac. We want to keep the work on both folder synced.
How we can do this?
What happens if we modify the same file?
Thanks in advance,
Filippo
If you have a dotmac account you could use syncing to keep the files in sync with each other.
You would have to turn on iDisk Syncing. Then put the files you are working on in that folder.
Sync the other machine with iDisk and then have iDisk Syncing switched on on that machine too but have one machine set up as the 'Master' and one Machine setup to sync Manually. The Master Machine should sync whenever any file changes and then you can get in touch with your friend and tell him when to sync, as syncing automatically with two machines, they might both sync at the same time causing an error.
When the other machine does a 'Manual' sync the files which have been replaced or updated will be changed to the new ones. He could sync manually when he has worked on a file too and on yours it would update automatically.
You would have to have a very good method in place and keep in contact regularly but I think that would work. That is if the machines are not in the same building? I assume their not as you would just have them shared on the Network wouldn't you?
Mark
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